Sunday saw Ewart and I brave the wind and rain to try to find somewhere rideable. In the end we hit up Mini Afan,
We bumped into Greg(Max Powers) who explained the trail situation(everything's gotta be natural and no built up man made structures) and pointed out a few new tuns he'd put in.
Rode there for an hour or so b4 we dived into the mighty Hick Truck and gunned it to the mafia trails, our top secret testing and training ground.
For those of you uninformed, the Mafia Trails are an area of land set aside for the construction fun. The builders there fall into 2 groups at the moment, those who want to build fast flowing trails(Ewart and myself included), and those who want to build big hucks straight down the hill. A good combination at the moment. There have been some good things built ad a few unrideable monstrosities, but we're learning fast.
The main thing we're struggling with is a lack of dirt. So if anyone's landscaping their garden and want to get shot of some, drop me a line.
Anyway, back to Sunday, we tried the new booter Tom K put up and decided it's pretty sweet, then played on Ewart's new off camber hip things. We spent a while tweaking them until Ewart started getting them wired.
Next we hit up the table a few times, and then rode some half built virgin shore, man that rode sweet!
After that we started mixing up the lines, swopping over, seeing what flowed and what ended up with hitting a tree!
Finally we decided that hitting the the little gap down the bottom flat out would be the best way to end the day. With light fading we dropped off Baby Bear and hooned towards the take off in a close train.
To say that we over shot the landing would be an understatement. We moved the landing back a few feet and I hit it up again. We were clearing at least 14 feet, so next time I'll move the take off back 5 or 6 feet and try again, it is such a smooth gap and such a good place to get confidence gapping.
Pics and video to follow
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